Kamal Ali was born in Springfield, is married and has three children and eleven grandchildren.
Dr. Kamal H. Ali
ADDRESS: Westfield State College Westfield, MA 01085
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Kamal Hassan Ali
author Black Muslim http://www.amazon.com/Dar-ul-Islam-Principle-Kamal-Hassan-Ali/dp/1456325272#reader_1456325272
Dr. Kamal Hassan Ali – ISWM VP – Founding member
“Sent home” from Howard University for his Black Panther rants, Kamal Ali then moved to New York, where he hooked up with the wrong crowd and was headed for big trouble. Then he learned of the Dar-al-Islam community and quickly became a contributing member of the Movement.
He was an early proselytizer of the faith to angry young African Americans, helping to direct their hatred toward the Dar-al-Harb, or “house of war” and the eternal enemies of Al’lah and his Apostle.
From 1970 until 1977 he served on the Muslim Prison Committee, assigned to The Bronx House of Detention, Riker’s Island, and Green Haven Correctional Facility, a maximum security facility in Stormville, New York, helping to redirect the energies of dangerous criminals and sociopaths toward a constructive jihad in the way of Al’lah.
Dr. Ali is the Imam of the Ludlow Correctional Center and a professor at Westfield State University.
Dar-ul-Islam: Principle, Praxis, Movement This seminal work by Dr. Kamal Hassan Ali is rooted in his personal involvement with the largest indigenous effort to promote the religious and social remedies of Islam in America.
Brooklyn New York in early 1970 is where Dr. Ali pledged himself to the principles of the Dar-ul-Islam Movement, a national Sunni Muslim religious movement whose aim was to familiarize the American people with the precepts of the religion of Islam.
Dr. Ali was instrumental in forwarding the Movement’s educational goals, and in contributing to the New York State Prison program established by the Dar-ul-Islam Muslim Prison Committee.
With respect to the Dar’s legitimate claim as an indigenous revivalist movement, Dr. Ali methodically sifts through the five major responsibilities or Pillars of Islam and demonstrates how this Movement, peopled by mostly African American converts, satisfied the communal obligations to these Pillars and, by so doing, situates the Movement in the center of the global Islamic experience
Kamal Hassan Ali, Ed.D., became a member of the Dar-ul-Islam community in early 1970 and quickly became a contributing member of the Movement. He edited and was a contributing writer for the Movement journal, Al-Jihadul Akbar, from its inception to its last publication, and was an early dai’ee, or proselytizer of the faith. He delivered the pristine message of Islam at Yasin Mosque on Friday evenings when non-Muslims were invited from the surrounding Brooklyn neighborhoods.
From 1970 until 1977 he served on the Muslim Prison Committee, assigned to The Bronx House of Detention, Riker’s Island, and Green Haven Correctional Facility a maximum security facility in Stormville, New York.
He attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, at the behest of Imam Yahyah Abdul-Kareem, to study and develop education programs for Muslims.
He completed a doctorate in Education in 1981. His dissertation is entitled “Muslim School Planning in America:
An Analysis of Issues, Problems and Possible Solutions.” Currently, he is engaged in community work in the area of Greater Springfield, Massachusetts,
Dr. Ali is the Imam of the Ludlow Correctional Center in Ludlow, Massachusetts,
Vice President and Founding Member of the Islamic Society of Western Massachusetts, and a full-time professor in the Department of Ethnic and Gender Studies at Westfield State University, Westfield, Massachusetts.
After working as a professor at Westfield State for 30 years, award winner Kamal H. Ali, of Springfield, said he would like to some day soon to work in Springfield public schools.
He said he sees more city students starting college unprepared and would like to improve education, especially in the third, fourth and fifth grades, where it is best to reach children.
Ali said he was surprised to hear he was nominated by his grandson, Saddiq Ali, a junior at Central High.
For years he has always served as a mentor for his grandson and his friends and other young people in Springfield. He has been a board member of the Dunbar Community Center since 1986, is a pastor for the Sherrif’s Department, and is a founding member of the Islamic Society of Western Massachusetts.
“I tell them to develop their talents and the way to do that is to work hard, be consistent and have realistic goals,” Ali said.
